Tenant Selection in Quota Enforcing Request Admission Mechanisms for Shared Applications

Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for selecting requests from a plurality of tenant queues in a multi-tenant system including actions of determining a plurality of weights, each weight being associated with a respective tenant in a set of tenants, each weight being dynamically adjusted based on a quota associated with the respective tenant for each iteration of a plurality of iterations within a period, selecting a tenant from the set of tenants based on the plurality of weights to provide a selected tenant, and transmitting a request from a request queue associated with the selected tenant for processing by a shared resource.